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Growing as a software engineer (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Forge Your Own Path

Lamatia: It takes courage to forge your own path. When i was at uber, we had this product called cash. One engineer and one data scientist were just holding the whole thing together with duck tape. If you're on a rocket ship, it doesn't matter you're going to sort it out. That's the feeling i had in the early days of uper. The people who worked on this product were supermotivated. They didn't care what their title was; they were having a blast. And these people became so much more senior in such a short time in terms of growth ownership. I would have been really careful to not get into that position. You know

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